I’ll update as I read on!! and i don’t have much time for free reading with university and all~~~
actually I finished this couple of months ago!!! 
George Elliot’s The Mill on The Floss:
“I am in love with moistness, and envy the white ducks that are dipping their heads far into the water here among the withes, unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in the drier world above.”
Mr. Tulliver: “too ’cute (acute) for a woman, I’m afraid…. An over ’cute woman’s no better nor a long-tailed sheep— she’ll fetch none the bigger price for that.”
“It is always chilling in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give. And if you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.”
“The spiders were especially a subject of speculation with her (Maggie). She wondered if they had any relatives outside the mill, for in that case there must a painful difficulty in their family intercourse— a fat and floury spider, accustomed to take his fly well dusted with meal, must suffer a little at a cousin’s table where the fly was au naturel, and the lady-spiders must be mutually shocked at each others’ appearances.”
“These bitter sorrows of childhood! When sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.”
“We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarreled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this way preserve a dignified alienation, showing much firmness on one side, and swallowing much grief on the other. We no longer approximate in our behavior to the mere impulsiveness of the lower animals, but conduct ourselves in every respect like members of highly civilized society.”
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it—”
MY FAVORITE ONE (substitute the word Dodson with your own family name):
“And it is remarkable that while no individual Dodson was satisfied with any other individual Dodson, each was satisfied, not only with him or her self, but with the Dodsons collectively.”
“…, but the weaker sex are acknowledged to be serious impedimenta in cases of flight.”
“He would have refused a bit of hers beforehand, but one is naturally at a different point of view before and after one’s own share of puff is swallowed.”
“Every one of those keen moments has left its trace, and lives in us still, but such traces have blent (blend) themselves irrecoverably with the firmer texture of our youth and manhood; and so it comes that we can look on at the troubles of our children with a smiling disbelief in the reality of their pain.”
Mrs. Pullet: “ it’s very bad luck, sister, as the gell (girl) should be so brown— the boy’s fair enough. I doubt (I’m afraid) it’ll stand in her way i’ (of) life to be so brown.”
“Mrs. Deane was not a woman to take part in a scene where missiles were flying.”
“Poor relations are undeniably irritating— their existence is so entirely uncalled for on our part, and they are almost always very faulty people.”
“A boy’s sheepishness is by no means a sign of overmastering reverence; and while you are making encouraging advances to him under the idea that he is overwhelmed by a sense of your age and wisdom, ten to one he is thinking you extremely queer. The only consolation I can suggest to you is, that the Greek boys probably thought the same of Aristotles.”
“…. Which sometimes comforted her mother with the sense that Maggie could look pretty now and then, in spite of her brown skin.”
Mrs. Pullet: “It’s dreadful….. people playing with their insides in that way!”
“…; for Tom’s contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty places.”
“First Puritans thanked God for the blood of the Loyalists, and Loyalists thanked God for the blood of the Puritans.”
“The Catholics, bad harvest, and the mysterious fluctuations of trades, were the three evils mankind had to fear.”
“…but for a long while it had not been expected of preachers that they should shake the souls of men.”
“It was a time when ignorance was much comfortable than at present, and was received with all the honours in very good society, without being obliged to dress itself in an elaborate costume of knowledge; a time when cheap periodicals were not, and when country surgeons never thought of asking their female patients if they were fond of reading, but simply took it for granted that they preferred gossip;…”
“In old-fashioned times, an ‘independence’ was hardly ever made without a little miserliness as a condition.”
“People who seem to enjoy their ill-temper have a way of keeping it in fine condition by inflicting privations on themselves.”
“When people were grown up, he (Tom) considered, nobody inquired about their writing and spelling”
“Mr. Tulliver was not by any means an exception in mistaking brazenness for shrewdness.”
“Intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without metaphor, — that we can so seldom declare what a thing is, except by saying it is something else?”
Maggie: “I think all women are crosser than men.”
Mr. Stelling of girls: “they can pick up a little of everything, I daresay … they’ve a great deal of superficial cleverness; but they couldn’t go far into anything. They’re quick and shallow.”
“Where the outer world seemed only an extension of our personality: we accepted and loved it as we accepted our own sense of existence and our limbs.”
Mrs. Moss: “it’s a deal easier to do what pleases one’s husband than to be puzzling what else one should do.”
About Philip Wakem: “the brown hair round it waved and curled at the ends like a girl’s: Tom thought THAT truly pitiable.”
“But Maggie would have it that when anything hurt you very much, it was quite permissible to cry out, and it was cruel of people not to bear it.”
Mr. Deane: “if you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself.”
“there is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no long memories, no superadded life in the life of others”
“No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful collision come of it.”
“she could make dream world of her own— but no dream world could satisfy her now. “the eager heart gained faster and faster on the patient mind.”
“— and frighten her with a sense that it was not difficult for her to become a demon.”
“— renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.”
“girls are so accustomed to think of dress as the main ground of vanity.”
Philip: “stupification is not resignation: and it is stupification to remain ignorant.”
Philip: “It is mere cowardice to seek safety in negation….You will be thrown into the world some day, and then every satisfaction of your nature that you deny now, will assault you like a savage appetite.”
Maggie: “I’m determined to read no more books where blond-haired carry away all the happiness. I should begin to have a prejudice against them.”
Maggie: “But it isn’t for that (vanity), that I’m jealous for the dark women— not because I’m dark myself. It’s because I always care the most about the unhappy people: if the blond girl were forsaken, I should like her best.”
At Any rate, I don’t think I’ll find the rest of the books in Jareer Bookstore, so I might as well order it from Amazon.. I’m starting to think of making a video for Anne Shirley, it just have to be a Fairouz song.. The thing is I can’t make up my mind which song would suit her..
